Mrs Ann West Powell (1762-1837) - Find a Grave Memorial

Mrs Ann West Powell

Birth

29 Jul 1762

A Country Place, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA

Death

5 Jan 1837 (aged 74)

Danville, Boyle County, Kentucky, USA

Burial

Presbyterian Church Cemetery

Danville, Boyle County, Kentucky, USA Add to Map

Plot

Immediately to right as you enter the Church

Memorial ID

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Wife of Major Robert Powell, Continental Army, is buried in this cemetery. Married later 1779 in Fairfax County. Removed to Kentucky. Settled on Revolutionary War land grants on Green River in Adair County. Fourteen children. Was living with daughter, Susan Walker Fry Powell Jacobs, wife of John Adamson Jacobs, Principal of the School for the Deaf in Danville at the time of her death.

Inscription

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
ANN WEST POWELL BORN FAIRFAX COUNTY VA JULY 29 1762 DIED DANVILLE, BOYLE COUNTY KY JAN 5 1837 MOTHER OF JOHN WEST, FRANCES WEST, ROBERT WEST, MARGARET, MARY, WILLIAM, RICHARD. ANNA, MARY BLEDSOE, AMELIA, WILLIAM M., ELIZABETH, MARTHA, AND SUSAN WALKER FRY POWELL COUSIN OF GEORGE WASHINGTON COMMANDER IN CHIEF CONTINENTAL ARMY

BELOVED WIFE OF ROB T POWELL BORN JAN 23 1753 CULPEPPER COUNTY VA DIED ADAIR COUNTY KY MAY 14 1815 3rd VA REG CONTINENTAL ARMY 1776-1779 VA STATE TROOPS 1779-1786 ORIGINAL MEMBER SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI 1783 WHOSE SERVICES AND GALLANTRY AT HARLEM HEIGHTS, WHITE PLAINS, CROSSING THE DELAWARE, TRENTON, PRINCETON, GERMANTOWN, BRANDY WINE, VALLEY FORGE, MONMOUTH AND YORKTOWN HELPED SECURE AMERICAN LIBERTIES